Modern Warfare and Contemplation of Strategic Victory
That is an old saying - victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan! On the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on 01 May 2003,...
CLAUSEWITZ’S TRINITIES
On War or Vom Kriege penned by Clausewitz and published after his death in 1832 is vade mecum of every military practitioner of any...
With Biden’s ‘America is back’, will US resort to being the Big Boss or...
While Joe Biden sworn in as the 46th President of the United States (POTUS) in just about few hours, it is widely accepted that...
Theatre Commands – A Conceptual Approach
What should Theatre Commands essentially be? There is little information on the on-going deliberations regarding theaterisation emanating from the Department of Military Affairs (DMA)....
India and China Swap Roles amid Nepal Political Crisis
As Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli dissolved Nepal’s parliament on Dec 20 last year, the country quickly descended into political turmoil again after a...
SUN TZU & How Not to Win
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s will without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
As military men and security analysts, we have been brought up to...
Storm of the Swarms: Lessons for India
“I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.” —Claude Shannon
The fourth...
Winds of Change in Kashmir
On 16 November 2017, Arshid Majid Khan, a twenty-year-old college-going Kashmiri boy who had joined Pakistan based proscribed terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), walked into...
Celebrating Democracy in ‘Naya Jammu and Kashmir’
“When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.”- Mahatma Gandhi
Post abrogation of Article 370 and 35A in August...
Strengthening India-Brunei Darussalam Relations: Moving towards greater strategic bonds
India and Brunei Darussalam share a long history of diplomatic relations since 1984 and this relationship is being harnessed in the present times as...